Bauhaus - Silent Hedges | Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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TODAY'S VIDEO: The Audiophiles Reaction/Review - “Silent Hedges" - by Bauhaus
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I've seen Bauhaus a few times live and, man, the theatrics are on point!! I love them so much. Glad you liked them, Andy.
I saw the band on their reunion tour on the first night at the Hammerstein Ballroom in 1999 and it was truly amazing but I think my favorite part was after performing the opening song 'Double Dare' when the audience started the applause instead of the usual 'Thank you' Peter Murphy said very dramatically, 'You're welcome!'...hahaaa like he was doing us a favor. Which he was.
I quite liked Bauhaus, didn't have any of the albums but enjoyed the few songs I heard from them, cheers guys!
Hey now... OG goth here and I still wear black, as unfashionable as it may be. Still live the music too. If anything, it makes me the neighborhood eccentric.
Totally agree with everything said by Jon and Andy for this track. A bit silly but in the context of late 70s and early 80s most things were. The best thing about them was they were really doing their own thing; very art school making the sleeve designs, producing their albums themselves - one of the album tracks was recorded in a quite humble back street studio, where they recorded Bela Lugosi's Dead three years earlier. The Brave New World based lyrics makes sense, they employed lots of creative techniques to write songs, which probably explains why there is not a lot of weight to them. However they could make a fantastic noise with some diverse influences in there - reggae and dub, which made it unusual. Not many bands at the time put a12 String up front. Ultimately, They never moved to London and hung out in their hometown, which really galled the music press who largely ridiculed them.
Thanks Rob. Up the Cobblers!
Cheers, Jon.
Is Vic there? (Asking for a friend, and we'll have no reaper-fearing here tyvm.)
Night on Bare Mountains (sometimes St John's Eve, sometimes Bald - never Bear, which is another place altogether, noted for its picnic) is best known from the strikingly silly setpiece in Disney's _Fantasia_ SLCuL-K39eQ - OK Mickey, get out of _this_ one!. (Saccharine and maple syrup performance imo.)
For Jon - a video of Goths on a bouncy castle ivooiZFpx6Y (I prefer the Peel session)
Why are the hedges silent? No birds, no insects - it's a disturbing image.
The opening of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" reminds me of an incident at school. A mate had had his nailfile confiscated (again). He went into the chemist's over the road and asked to buy one. They showed him a selection, and he twanged them all on the counter. "I'll have this one."
I guess you're gearing up for Halloween, going goth. I've listened to Bauhaus and am very familiar with Bela Luigosi is Dead. Their cover of Ziggy Stardust, which I thought was cheap, got some air play here. I did not like Love & Rockets, its all about prefences. However, Peter Murphy's solo stuff I enjoyed. "Cuts You Up" and "Indigo Eyes", imo, still stand up as great songs.I hope you check those tunes out. And the video for Cuts You Up, so goth...
I was never a goth, but I loved some goth music, and always liked horror, so appreciated the aesthetic when it was done right (unfortunately I believe that rarely applied to goth fans). Bauhaus is one of those goth bands I loved. I like the way you put it about Bauhaus that "the music's so good it warrants being taken seriously". "Pretentious" doesn't work for me as a descritpion of something that has actual talent behind it. "Theatrical" on the other hand probably hits the nail on the head here. It may be over the top, maybe camp at times, and sometimes difficult to figure how seriously it takes itself (and which is worse -- when it takes itself seriously vs when it doesn't), but appreciable as having value and individuality.
Theatrical, yes. Melodramatic, yes. But from the go, Bauhaus never took themselves too seriously- think of “Harry” (written about Debbie Harry of Blondie, whom they didn’t think much of apparently), or “Watch That Grandad Go”. The fun continued with TOT, L&R, and the Bubblemen.
I have to admit I loved Bauhaus. But every album you knew what you what you were going to get. They had some really standout songs, but there were few surprises, they were never going to make a massive change in sound from album to album.
The Sky's Gone Out is their masterpiece. Thematic cohesion, amazing music, and dark and literate lyrics.
Is “blah blah blah” code for Tones on Tail?